Word: gam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawsuit filed by council candidate James I. McSweeney asks the Massachusetts Supreme Court to abolish PR voting, although he hopes to gam election under the system in Tuesday's elections...
...story is not new. From the time Chinese Forty-Niners joined the California Gold Rush, Asians have tended to see America in terms of the old Cantonese name for San Francisco: Gao Gam Saan (Old Gold Mountain), or a land of economic opportunity above all. Nativist harassment of the newcomers, coupled with openly racist citizenship and immigration laws, encouraged the impulse to get ahead financially without bothering about assimilation into the mainstream society. Politics was something to be avoided. As an old Far Eastern maxim goes, the nail that sticks out gets hammered down...